Michael Hudson on US designs on Iran

one problem seems to be that Iran still has US trained economists https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/michael-hudson-us-designs-on-iran-and-the-trump-xi-summit.html

Book review by JohnLancaster on money laundering books

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/john-lanchester/squillions

Civilization at the Crossroads with Alastair Crooke (Full Interview)

https://youtu.be/MGnJEb4sXwM?si=gLcSq3FjfhMX3MPE

Colonel Larry Wilkerson discusses what empires do

MacArthur, there is no substitute for victory. Go to hell, Doug. That's not what empires do. Empires simply hold the world at bay and fulfill their monetary, economic, and other interests, mercenary interests, and that's all you can expect. And you fuel the complex that keeps those wars going on because that's what you want to do. You want to be constantly at war, but you don't want anyone to defeat you in the traditional sense So, it's not really a metric you can use to judge the empire by winning or losing wars. It's no longer consequential in the scheme of things for Rome. But the empire has not achieved any of its stated goals. Well, it has achieved a few. It has gotten a barrier of conflict. That's what I'm calling it now. A barrier of conflict. What's that? From the Arctic Ocean all the way a barrier of conflict. Not barrier to conflict of conflict. Conflict all the way from north of Manask in the Arctic Ocean where we're doing things the American people and our media aren't reporting don't know anything about. We're all the way through the Baltic where we're still agitating around all the way through Ukraine. all the way down to Georgia where we're still trying to overthrow that government. Other governments in the Caucasus are now being impacted by that too, down to Iran, the biggest and latest chapter in this axis of crisis and disturbance. And all this is designed to put a wall up against further Chinese and Russian now infiltration into Eastern Western Europe and ultimately across the Atlantic and into the North American continent. That's what it's all about. From https://www.youtube.com/live/Ai48FpArr8Q?si=eToagy_XiXWWJb_n

Nima with Colonel Anthony Aguilar discusses Lebanon and other things

https://www.youtube.com/live/4m5yv6gKM4Q?si=JB0-sluLQtU4JqMS

Modi going to visit UAE

https://youtu.be/WXEipD96V14?si=NVVpfj6L9sMtVBgn

India again in this Janta Ka Report and timesaxis

https://youtu.be/D-yXi1geTiI?si=XXF-ROT4QfDKa8y6 https://youtu.be/7ZMrwGTMdm8?si=FiaqXmjE8hTSfL6Z mlfd today from Bhadrakumar https://www.indianpunchline.com/indias-quasi-alliance-with-israel-and-uae-wont-have-happy-ending/

Scott Ritter discusses the current situation in Iran and also discusses India at the end

https://www.youtube.com/live/euTjsj7OonU?si=POqldmnh-fF0S4zu I am not optimistic about India because I don't think India there India hasn't made a strategic decision yet. Remember India was in 1:01:301 hour, 1 minute, 30 secondsIsrael making common cause with the Israelis right before this war started. 1:01:351 hour, 1 minute, 35 secondsum that doesn't sit well and India is problematic when it comes to China and Pakistan. I mean Pakistan 1:01:431 hour, 1 minute, 43 secondsI think Pakistan is one of the great superstars of this crisis. The the leadership that Pakistan has shown the maturity that Pakistan has shown the 1:01:511 hour, 1 minute, 51 secondsability of Pakistan to um work with the United States, with China, with Russia, with Iran um and others to to create the 1:01:581 hour, 1 minute, 58 secondspotential for a diplomatic solution. If ever there was, you know, an entity that deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, if if this if this 1:02:081 hour, 2 minutes, 8 secondscan if if if this conflict can be brought to an end, I think the Pakistani leadership deserves collectively the 1:02:151 hour, 2 minutes, 15 secondsNobel Peace Prize for the role they played in making peace possible. Um because it's amazing what they've done. 1:02:211 hour, 2 minutes, 21 secondsUh superb diplomacy. Um but you know, India is problematic. I mean, India is a problem child. It's big. It's powerful. 1:02:301 hour, 2 minutes, 30 secondsUm but they don't know where they want to be in the world and as long as India is indecisive like that. Now maybe this 1:02:371 hour, 2 minutes, 37 secondsmeeting will you know be the beginning of India's you know transition to being serious about bricks 1:02:451 hour, 2 minutes, 45 secondsbut right now India is not serious about bricks not serious at all. and he is more serious about uh you know G20 1:02:521 hour, 2 minutes, 52 secondsviability and uh you know hoping against hope to get an invitation into the the G7 um which will never 1:03:001 hour, 3 minuteshappen. Um you know India's also continues to lobby for relevance at the security council and they feel they need the United States uh support to uh to 1:03:091 hour, 3 minutes, 9 secondsget that. So India is is is putting far too much weight on a relationship with the United States that's no longer 1:03:161 hour, 3 minutes, 16 secondsglobally relevant. Um I mean the bottom line is India's future must be with repairing relations with China and um https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euTjsj7OonU

Alastair Crooke update on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/IUeHkLFFpEI?si=FAISdYQNKu_VUQRL

An interesting discussion with Robert Barnes and Krapivnik

Trump is America's new Golden Calf https://youtu.be/eD3U_MtTkk4?si=SmzLqDwIxvBIt0lV

MoA:War On Iran: – Saudis Blame Israel – Neocon Grandee Concedes Defeat

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/05/war-on-iran-saudis-blame-israel-neocon-grandee-concedes-defeat.html

Professor Marsndindescribes the latest naval encounter near Oersian gulf

early in the video https://www.youtube.com/live/RDvZv4mZTlg?si=LWYOE3K1wcQSJNGX